Heidi, I see it's been nearly a week since your first post. You've gotten a lot of great suggestions and I hope your mother is feeling better. For me the only thing that helped with the mouth lesions was viscous lidocaine, which I swished and held in my mouth for a good 10 minutes before trying to swallow the liquid nutrition. I also had oxycodone and finally fentanyl patches, but for surface pain the lidocaine was the only thing that helped.

Please keep us posted.



David 2
SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18